Picket and barbed fence



(No Model.)

J. LOOHER.

PIOKET AND BARBED FENCE.

Patented Aug. 28, 1888.

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J AMES LOOHER, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

PICKET AND BARBED FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming art of Letters Patent No. 388,780, dated August 28, 1888.

Application filed November-21, 1887. Serial No. 255.676. (No model.)

T0 @135 whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES LOCHER, of the city of Dccatu r, county of Macon, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Picket and Barb Fences, of which the following is a specification.

Fences constructed of wire and pickets are commonly used in place of more substantial fences because of their cheapness, and the posts are placed far apart and the pickets reduced in size in order-to lessen the expense. A fence so built at a minimum expense will answer all purposes and resist all displacing influences, save a continuous push or rub from a heavy animal; and it is the object of myinvention to prevent such continuous push or rub by providing the fence with barbs formed and arranged to present penetrating-points to a body in close contact. It is necessary to the use of the barbs for the purpose specified that they should be inexpensive and easily applied, and I attain both results, as hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a diagram of the barb, and Fig. 2 shows the upper portion of a few pickets with barbs applied thereto.

The barbs are each formed of an oblong blank, a, cleft in V form at its ends, as shown at a a in Fig. 1. Points 7) b b b are formed by the clefts, and said clefts coact with the wire to retain the barbs in position. The securing-wire d is formed of two strands that embrace the pickets and intertwine in the intervening spaces in the customary manner. The pickets c are of any desired proportion and conformation, a comparatively plane surface for the barb to fit against being required of each. The arrangement of barbs is preferably as shown, each alternate picket holding at its edge and between the strands of wire a single barb with its points projecting; on opposite sides of the fence. The intervening picketc may be provided on opposite sides with a barb having two or more of its points bent at right angles to its body, or it may be left plain.

In the drawings the intermediate picket has the bent barbs, but one of which may be seen, and said barbs are each supported by a single strand of wire. barbless in the drawings, though it is evident that the. conditions might easily be the same as with the upper wire. As a matter of preference, where a considerable number of wires are used, each alternate wire is barbed.

The barbs are preferably cut out of sheetiron, though they may be cast, and they are applied while the fence is in process of construction in a suitable machine.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent- 1. In fences, in combination, a series of pickets, supporting-wires embracing the pickets and intertwisting in the intervening spaces, and barbs on the wire in the intervening spaces projecting beyond the pickets on both sides of the fence, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In fences, in combination, a series of pickets, supporting-wires embracing the pickets and intcrtwisting in the intervening spaces, and barbs supported against edges of pickets by the wires and adapted to project beyond the faces of the same, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In fences, in combination, a series ofpickets, supportingwires embracing the pickets and intcrtwisting in the intervening spaces, and the cleft barbs fitting against edges of pickets, with their clefts astride the support ing-wircs, as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In fences, in combination, aseries of pick ets, supporting-wires embracing the pickets and intertwisting in the intervening spaces, cleft barbs fitting against edges of pickets with their clefts astride the supportingwires, and barbs on the faces of pickets sustained by an embracing-strand of wire, as and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES LOCHER.

Attest:

L. P. GRAHAM, Isaac D. WALKER.

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